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Those are SpeedFit tails that were probably bought separately from the tap and can be removed from the pipes without tools
. You should be able to reuse them with whatever tap you buy, since the top end where they connect to the tap is fairly standard (usually M10, occasionally M12).You'll find either: some sort of giant nut around the base of the tap. You may be able to untwiddle it by hand; or a small nut clamping a flat plate for which you'll need a long socket.
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our kitchen just needs to last for another year or so, tap is dripping it’s a 10 year old mixer presumably from one of the DIY places. I don’t really have any plumbing type tools.
Will the tails that come with a cheap tap/whatever is on offer at Wikes/B&Q go straight on these fittings? sink is stainless and I don’t want to be enlarging the hole.
I’m thinking is it easier to fit a new tap than try and find out what’s wrong with the old one?
we need a tap that reaches out further too as this one was the wrong choice for the sink.
Access is tight and i’m not sure how i actually get to whatever is underneath the tap, am i going to buy a load of tools that I never use again?
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